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We feature some of the top business leaders in Sustainability, talking through their growth challenges and how they're solving them.
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Stenver Jerkku of Soldera Talks Scaling to $1B With Under 30 People, AI Agents vs Middle Management & Founder-Led Sales (opens the original)
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Most founders scale by hiring layers of management. Stenver Jerkku is trying to build a billion dollar company without ever building any. Stenver is the founder of Soldera, infrastructure for global energy compliance, helping corporates and utilities navigate one of the most fragmented, old-school markets in the world. He's a serial entrepreneur who founded Soldera the same month GPT-3.5 launched, and went all in on AI from day one. Instead of hiring layers of managers as the company grows, he's
Sophie Tuviahu of Bioplasmar talks why bioplastics get priced out, the pivot from product to material & how EU regulation is forcing demand (opens the original)
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Nobody designs a product for a material made out of potato peels. Sophie Tuviahu is CEO of Bioplasmar, which makes biodegradable materials from green waste. Before this, she worked in commercial roles at UBQ Materials. When she joined Bioplasmar, the company was selling biodegradable plant pots direct to the horticultural market, a low-end, price-sensitive category where a product costing 2 to 4 times more than standard plastic never wins on a straight comparison. Her fix wasn't a better pot. It
Tom Wilford of Ella talks killing his SaaS for an AI agent, selling on time saved & the new distribution moat (opens the original)
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Most founders protect what's working. Tom Wilford burned his own company down while it was still growing. Tom is the founder and CEO of Ella, an AI agent for sustainability data, carbon reporting and B Corp certification. For 4 years he ran Future Proof, a working ESG software platform, before deciding at a team retreat in Prague to tear it down and rebuild it from nothing as an AI-native agent. No customer was asking for it. He made the call on instinct a year before the market caught up, and s
Nick Sandland of Algenesis Labs talks biodegradable materials, off-take deals & commercialising deep science (opens the original)
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Great science doesn't guarantee a market. Nick Sandland spent years finding that out for other people, before he bet his own career on it. In this episode of The Plucky Bamboo Podcast, Nick Sandland, the commercial lead at Algenesis Labs, talks about what it actually takes to turn deep material science into a business. Algenesis was founded by three UC San Diego professors with a genuinely novel biodegradable polyurethane and no industry experience. Nick joined to build the commercial side from
Angelo Amicarelli of Finapp talks cosmic ray sensors, niche positioning & scaling hardware (opens the original)
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Most founders chase the biggest possible market. Angelo Amicarelli chased the smallest one he could own completely. In this episode of The Plucky Bamboo Podcast, Angelo Amicarelli, co-founder of FinApp, talks about building a category of one. FinApp uses cosmic ray neutron detection, technology that started as university research into homeland security, to measure water in soil, snow, and crops. There are only three companies in the world doing this. FinApp is one of them. Angelo explains why he
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